Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom

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Amin Abu Wardeh, director of the privately owned news website Asdaa Press, was arrested in an early morning raid on his home in the West Bank city of Nablus on April 15, 2015, by Israeli security forces, according to news reports and his employer. Abu Wardeh's wife, Um Omar, told local press freedom group the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom (MADA)that Israeli security forces interrogated her husband for an hour at their home before taking him to an unknown location. Soldiers searched their home and confiscated three laptops and her husband's phone, she said.

New York, December 14, 2012--Israeli soldiers assaulted four
Palestinian journalists and forced them to strip naked at a checkpoint in the
West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday, according to news reports. Two of the
journalists worked for Reuters, and two for local Palestinian news outlets, the
reports said.